Part of being an effective leader is learning how to play to your strengths and overcome characteristics that don't lend to good leadership practices. During the course, you will examine your own strengths and learn ways to use them in a leadership role. Learn to manage stress and solve problems creatively. Throughout the course, you will also build a tool kit of useful techniques that you can begin using right away in your engineering career.
This course is designed for engineers who are interested in and have the desire to advance into leadership and management roles. You don't need any leadership experience to do well in this course. We ask you to reflect on your personal experiences pretty often,, so some work experience will help you in that aspect, but we hope that most of what you learn here will be applicable to many areas of your life.

JS

Excellent course to get your brain thinking. Opens your eyes into a leadership sight. Help yourself

HZ

Sep 12, 2019

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Self Awareness

An introduction to self-assessment tools that allow you to identify strengths and weaknesses and how they could impact your leadership style. This week's tool for your leadership toolkit is developing your statement of life purpose.

Impartido por:

David Van Kleeck

Professor in the Practice of Engineering Leadership

Transcripción

[MUSIC] Here we are again at the Hindman Garden for my journal reflection for this module. During my military career, I was a battalion commander. And one of my responsibilities in that role was to make sure that our units were trained, both my headquarters and our subordinate units. So frequently, we would travel from our home location to a military installation where we could go to the field and do our tactical training. I developed a pretty good relationship with my staff and my executive officer at the time was fond of ambushing our main convoy. When he would be on the main advance party doing a reconnaissance of our man post location. So frequently, I had to worry about containing with the tactical environment where he was operating an ambush. On one particular exercise, I had send him with an advance party to scout out where we were going to be setting up our operating area. And I knew from the terrain, I've been on it many times that there was only one place where he could conduct an ambush of our convoy as we approach our tactical site. [MUSIC] Thinking on that I decided to do something different. We had always used the same assembly area and we'd always used the same entrance to the military installation. So on this particular occasion, I decided that I'll will test his assumption, that we will be using that route by taking a different route into the field location. So I went in a different gate, about the time he realized what had happened, I had already occupied our tactical area and were setup and ready to go. Needless to say, he was a little bit upset that we had fooled him, and highlighted the fact that he had made an assumption about what we would do. So my challenge to you as you approach your career is, are you aware of the assumptions that you're making and the potential consequences that they might have?